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NEWS - The Real Reason Chris Jericho Is Back In AEW, Not WWE…

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


The Real Reason Chris Jericho Is Back In AEW!

SPOILERS: Another Former AEW World Champion Back!

WrestleMania 42 Favourites To Win!

Randy Orton Phone Call Reveal?!


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0:00.0

Hello there, my very good friends, on today's wrestling news. Chris Jericho is back in AEW.

0:05.5

So is a former AEW champion on collision. Spoiler! Yeah, that's a big spoiler that one. Don't wait for the

0:11.5

timestamp for that one if you don't want to be spoiled. Possible, Ressomania spoilers as betting odds leak.

0:17.4

And the voice in Randy Orton's phone might be making an appearance on this Friday's

0:21.5

Smackdown.

0:22.2

Ooh, I'm Andy H. Murray. The H stands for hardcore will never die, but cheap lagger will.

0:27.6

I'm Michael Hanford and I support that message.

0:30.4

Yeah, the thing is, it will literally die because it won't be cheap because the world is

0:34.9

trending in an expensive direction.

0:37.3

Yeah. Anyway, let's kick this one off by talking about Chris Jericho. He's trending in an expensive direction. Yeah.

0:37.8

Anyway, let's kick this one off by talking about Chris Jericho.

0:40.5

He's back in AW.

0:42.1

We're going to speculate on why this might be, but it was a growing story yesterday.

0:47.9

If you were on X.com, you may have seen some rumors popping up and then Fightful Select came through with a report stating that there had been talks of Chris Jericho like returning soon to AW.

1:01.8

They'd spoken about creative and stuff like that.

1:04.1

And quite often when a report like that comes out, the return happens very, very quickly.

1:09.1

And it did.

1:09.7

It happened on last night's AEW Dynamite, which,

1:12.1

by the way, it was in Winnipeg, you idiot. It was, the show was opening up, they were setting up like

1:18.4

they were going to do the MJF, Kenny Omega contract signing straight away. Tony Schiavani was in

1:23.6

the ring. He was very surprised when it wasn't M.J.F's music or Kenny Omega's many

1:28.6

musics. It was Judas, which played. Chris Jericho came out, walked down. I think he was

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